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Scientific Software Day

ANNOUNCING SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DAYS MAY 15 - 16, 2008

The Texas Advanced Computing Center, in association with the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, is pleased to present the second annual Scientific Software Days. The purpose of the event is to increase communication among scientific software users, vendors, and service providers.

May 15th will be a day of science-oriented presentations. On May 16, there will be two half day tutorials presented:

- Representatives of IBM Corp. will present the Eclipse platform and its use in parallel programming,
- Representatives of Enthought Inc. will talk about the use of Python in scientific computing.

REGISTRATION

PROGRAM

May 15

8:30 AM coffee and snacks

9:00 AM Supercomputer facilities at TACC (Karl Schulz, TACC)

9:30 AM TACC Visualization Resources (Romy Schneider, TACC)

10:00 AM MyCluster Version 2: Building dynamic personal clusters on the desktop (Ed Walker, TACC)

10:30 AM break

10:45 AM SPSS, SAS and R Can Greatly Simplify Presentation & Analysis of Research Finds (James Bryant, Biological Sciences, UT)

11:15 AM Making Parallel Programming Synonymous with Programming for Matrix Computations (Robert van de Geijn, Computer Science, UT)

11:45 AM HPC Considered Harmful (Greg Wilson, University of Toronto)

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 - 3:10 PM 3:20 - 5:00 PM

May 16

8:30 AM registration, welcome, coffee and snacks

9:00 AM Scientific Application Development with Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform (Beth Tibbitts and Greg Watson) (with a 15 minute break, concludes at 12:30)

12:30 PM lunch

1:30 PM Enthought Inc presents Scientific Python (Eric Jones and Travis Oliphant) (with a 15 minute break, concludes at 5 PM)